Speech delivered to the Corps of Cadets August 14, 1821, following the Corps' march from Boston to Adams' home in Quincy Massachusetts. After watching the cadets parade and perform close and extended order drill, Adams offers his congratulations...

Speech delivered to the Corps of Cadets August 14, 1821, following the Corps' march from Boston to Adams' home in Quincy Massachusetts. After watching the cadets parade and perform close and extended order drill, Adams offers his congratulations...

Speech delivered to the Corps of Cadets August 14, 1821, following the Corps' march from Boston to Adams' home in Quincy Massachusetts. After watching the cadets parade and perform close and extended order drill, Adams offers his congratulations...

Speech delivered to the Corps of Cadets August 14, 1821, following the Corps' march from Boston to Adams' home in Quincy Massachusetts. After watching the cadets parade and perform close and extended order drill, Adams offers his congratulations...

Speech delivered to the Corps of Cadets August 14, 1821, following the Corps' march from Boston to Adams' home in Quincy Massachusetts. After watching the cadets parade and perform close and extended order drill, Adams offers his congratulations...

Speech delivered to the Corps of Cadets August 14, 1821, following the Corps' march from Boston to Adams' home in Quincy Massachusetts. After watching the cadets parade and perform close and extended order drill, Adams offers his congratulations...

On 12 April 1861, General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, an 1838 United States Military Academy (USMA) graduate and former Superintendent of the Academy, fired upon Major Robert Anderson, an 1825 USMA graduate and Beauregard’s former artillery...

In 1801, Mr. George Baron, a civilian mathematics instructor, arrived at West Point by the direction of the Secretary of War. Baron’s mission was to begin classes with the junior officers on post and newly appointed cadets in an effort to start a...

On 10 September 1973 a Cadet Honor Committee representing the United States Military Academy’s Corps of Cadets laid to rest the 102 year old tradition of formally silencing cadets found in violation of the Honor Code. The Corps’ decision to...

Since the birth of the United States Military Academy in 1802, there has been a growing debate on the primary mission of the Academy. Does the Military Academy exist solely to produce officers capable of performing their war-time mission in the...

Several historical documents state that "conditions" endured during the early phases of the Seminole War caused the resignation of over 100 company-grade officers between March and December of 1836, most of whom were West Point graduates. For...

Throughout the thirty year history scrambling has existed, rarely has it satisfied the developmental need of the West Point cadet. The current policy of scrambling the second class (2°) cadet before his or her academic year hinders and detracts...

Previously considered the nation’s leading engineering and military school during the antebellum period, USMA provided the nation with trained graduates, critical to the expansion and security of the country. Through this mission, the Academy...

Armistice, German tanks, mechanized infantry, and dive-bombers raced across Poland to start World War II. Between November 1918 and September 1939, the German Army transformed the potential of the tank and the airplane into the realities of modern...

The Four Class System at the United States Military Academy at West Point is the current four year leadership development program aimed at cultivating both the Fourth Class and the upperclass cadets. The present system evolved from the Fourth Class...

No Honor System or Code can be "established" - in the sense that a bridge is constructed, or a building is erected. Nor can it be simply "built" and placed in position, as some automatic machine, to do some work mechanically. It must spring from...